Affective Equality Love, Care and Injustice
This groundbreaking book provides a new perspective on equality by highlighting and exploring affective equality, the aspect of equality concerned with relationships of love, care and solidarity. Drawing on studies of intimate caring, or 'love labouring',
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Also by Kathleen Lynch and John Baker EQUALITY
From Theory to Action (with Sara Cantillon and Judy Walsh)
Affective Equality Love, Care and Injustice Kathleen Lynch John Baker Maureen Lyons With Sara Cantillon, Judy Walsh, Maggie Feeley, Niall Hanlon, Maeve O'Brien University College Dublin, Ireland
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© Kathleen Lynch, John Baker and Maureen Lyons 2009
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Contents Acknowledgements
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Preface
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Introduction Kathleen Lynch, John Baker and Maureen Lyons
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1 Which Equalities Matter? The Place of Affective Equality in Egalitarian Thinking Kathleen Lynch, John Baker, Sara Cantillon and Judy Walsh
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2 Love, Care and Solidarity: What Is and Is Not Commodifiable Kathleen Lynch and Judy Walsh
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3 Love Labouring: Nurturing Rationalities and Relational Identities Kathleen Lynch and Maureen Lyons
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4 Care-less Citizenship? Public Devaluation and Private Validation Kathleen Lynch and Maureen Lyons
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5 Gender, Social Class and Lone Caring: The Intersectionality of Inequalities Kathleen Lynch and Maureen Lyons
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6 Love Labouring: Power and Mutuality Kathleen Lynch, Maureen Lyons and Sara Cantillon
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7 Time to Care,
